School: Poor Clares' Convent, Cavan

Location:
Cavan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Sr. Carmel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 100

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  1. We don't want to beg,
    Be jingo if we do,
    We got the meal,
    We got the coal,
    We got the blankets too,
    Here's a health to Lord Farnham
    You sent us in the beef,
    And fifty pounds to Cavan's Poor Relief.
    This poem was composed in the time of the famine. In Cavan the people used to go to the fields and get turnips and bring them home and roast them to eat them. The men built the jail wall for one penny
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nóirín O Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Cavan, Co. Cavan